<VV> Slushbox? Slower?

[Frank DuVal]

I'm with Bob Marlow. Maybe something is wrong with those PG cars, as my 
experience with stock Corvairs is the PGs keep pretty close to the 4 
speeds. The 4 speed feels faster in the seat of the  pants, but the PG 
soon catches up to that jump start of the clutch.

Now if you modify the horsepower output, you aren't running two 
identical cars except for tranny difference, so all bets are off.

And in stock class autocrossing, PGs rule! In our in the field 
autocross, my daughter's 110 PG kept close to Smitty's time  in Spike, a 
very non standard HP 4 speed. What a fun day!

Frank DuVal

jvhroberts at aol.com wrote:

> Something was wrong with the stick car. My 110 4 speed Monza had zero trouble outrunning a PG. 
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Robert Marlow <vairtec at optonline.net>
>To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
>Sent: Sat, Jun 5, 2010 2:09 pm
>Subject: Re: <VV> Slushbox?  Slower?
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>A listmember wrote:
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>> and manual tranny cars are a lot quicker!
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>Not true!
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>In my high school years, back when Corvairs were essentially new, a 
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>friend, driving a 1965 Monza with a 110-stick, and I, driving a 1966 
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>Monza with a 110-PG, by coincdence met up at a traffic light one 
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>evening.  Without any conversation or deliberation, when the light 
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>turned green we took off!  An impromptu drag race.
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>The two cars were absolutely neck-and-neck... until he had to make 
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>the 1-2 shift.  Than put me half a length ahead.  When he had to make 
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>the 2-3 shift, I gained the rest of the car length, and won the race 
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>to the next light.
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>I gained a respect for the PG that night.
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>--Bob Marlow
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>(Today I own two PG Corvairs and two manual-shift Corvairs)
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>Robert W. Marlow
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